Semantic Evidence Persistence, Full Reverification, and Strengthened Memoization
“Safe Reuse Is Not Enough: A Controlled Comparison of Semantic Evidence Persistence, Full Reverification, and Strengthened Memoization”
Draft manuscript (2026-11-01 / 2026-11-02) · 2026-11-02
Pre-specified and internally audited controlled experiment on a bounded bit-vector domain comparing three conditions across 64 software revision transitions (576 target obligations): full reverification (Condition A), strengthened SMT-query memoization (Condition B), and a semantic evidence store (Condition C).
I. Supported within scope
- Condition C required 252 solver invocations vs. 576 for full reverification (56.25% reduction).
- All 8 adversarial soundness controls passed for Condition C with zero confirmed invalid evidence reuse across all 576 decided obligations.
- Outperformed strengthened memoization (Condition B) in the equivalent-change stratum (32 vs. 40 invocations).
II. Negative & mixed findings
- Negative efficiency result vs. strong baseline: Condition C required 2.625× as many invocations (252) as strengthened SMT-query memoization (Condition B, 96 invocations) overall.
- An exploratory hybrid follow-up (P0/P1) reduced some solver calls but increased wall-clock cost and exposed integrity defects D10–D13 and architectural limitation L-D14.
Preprint access: The standalone Preprint P1 upload in Zenodo is in draft state; the full compiled PDF (paper/main.pdf) and LaTeX source (paper/main.tex) are publicly available in the repository below and bundled inside Zenodo record v1.1-exp019 (10.5281/zenodo.23874125).
EFCH P1 Artifacts — Safe Reuse Is Not Enough (EXP-019)
Unmodified export from venture-synaptic/efch-research containing frozen protocol manifest (tag exp019-protocolo), instrument code (tag exp019-instrumento), raw evaluation logs (data/exp019-resultados.tar.gz), and internal audit trail.
Includes updated manuscript draft PDF/LaTeX, frozen protocol, and raw evaluation archive (31.8 MB).
Initial published artifact release with deterministic evaluation tarball and SHA256SUMS.
SHA-256 verification & reproduction protocol: